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Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its read more
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
